TED: Make Statistics, Not Calculus Summit of Math Teaching?

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/arthur_benjamin_s_formula_for_changing_math_education.html
 With this we start a series on SMILE-interest TED videos, the great service developed by Libs and others in local communities creating a world salon…and which is also on Netflix/Roku…Hurrah for DiffyQ, but most citizens really could use Stats, whoich integrates all parts of previous math and is darn useful (We would add a course in Logic or this free course on efficient thinking). How inportant is this idea? Check out:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_fool_juries.html

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